Galileo Galilei famously stood trial for his insistence—based on astronomical observations through his telescopes—that the Copernican model of the Solar System was correct. The Earth revolved ...

Four hundred years ago this month, Galileo was in Rome, trying to pick up the pieces of the Catholic Church's recent declaration that Copernican astronomy was contrary to scripture and not open ...

Revolutions in science don’t come that often, but the book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres) published in 1543 certainly caused one. The work by Nicolas ...

A Copernican revolution is a colossal reversal of thought and belief after a conceptual revelation. At the point of death, Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) challenged the geocentric model proposed ...

Nicolaus Copernicus was the man who developed the celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system, which was a complete ...

Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers discovered an underground chamber containing a 500-year-old compass near Copernicus’ burial site. The compass resembles the one often depicted with ...

Nicholas Copernicus was the astronomer who, five centuries ago, explained that Earth revolves around the sun, rather than vice versa. A true Renaissance man, he also practiced as a mathematician ...

When the Polish polymath Nicolaus Copernicus proposed in 1543 that the sun, rather than the Earth, was the center of our solar system, he did more than resurrect the “heliocentric” model that ...

Copernicus basically finished “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" in 1532, ... Rejection is easy in the absence of appliances that falsify the current model.

A seismic shift occurred in astronomy during the Scientific Revolution, beginning with 16th-century polymath Copernicus and his proposal that the Earth revolved around the sun. By the 17th century, ...